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Some Recent Sightings Published: August 29, 2014 Tags: General Observations, Green Heron, Red-eyed Vireo, Belted Kingfisher, Gray Catbird, Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, Eastern-wood Pewee, Purple Finch, American Goldfinch, Magnolia Warbler, Chipping Sparrow, Hudsonian Godwit, Wood Duck, Solitary Sandpiper Fall migration has started and I've been running out to bird here and there - pretty much whenever my work load will allow. I've been keeping my eyes open for migrants plus any birds I may have missed this year during spring migration. One very cool bird I found this week was right in my own backyard - a Yellow-bellied Flycatcher. This is definitely a first for our yard and I was excited to see it AND get a couple of decent photos of it. A little further east, near the Batavia Wastewater Treatment Plant, a young, curious Red-tailed Hawk peeked in over my sunroof on my car as I was looking over a farm field. That was a real surprise! He even let me grab a few awkward photos of him. After the treatment plant, I drove around the Geneseo area looking for migrants. I did find a few shorebirds, but the only interesting ones were a couple of Solitary Sandpipers mixed in with some Killdeer and yellowlegs. A trip out to Montezuma brought a year bird - two Hudsonian Godwits way out in the Knox Marcellus marsh. A poor digiscoped photo is included. Around the yard, after the Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, I found our first migrating warbler, a beautiful male Magnolia. We are still seeing Ruby-throated Hummingbirds - but only the females and the young ones now. The males have all left to return to their wintering places in the tropics. I haven't seen a Baltimore Oriole at our feeders for a couple of weeks now and I just brought in the grape jelly feeder for cleaning. Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Red-tailed Hawk Red-tailed Hawk American Kestrel Barn Swallow Cedar Waxwing Purple Finch Young Chipping Sparrow Our first fall migrating warbler, a beautiful male Magnolia Warbler Green Heron at Sinking Ponds Wood Ducks at Sinking Ponds Gray Catbird at Sinking Ponds Solitary Sandpipers in Geneseo American Goldfinch beginning to molt Two Hudsonian Godwits on the right at Knox Marcellus Marsh Add a Comment »

Some Recent Sightings

Published: August 29, 2014
Tags: General Observations, Green Heron, Red-eyed Vireo, Belted Kingfisher, Gray Catbird, Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, Eastern-wood Pewee, Purple Finch, American Goldfinch, Magnolia Warbler, Chipping Sparrow, Hudsonian Godwit, Wood Duck, Solitary Sandpiper

Fall migration has started and I've been running out to bird here and there - pretty much whenever my work load will allow. I've been keeping my eyes open for migrants plus any birds I may have missed this year during spring migration.

One very cool bird I found this week was right in my own backyard - a Yellow-bellied Flycatcher. This is definitely a first for our yard and I was excited to see it AND get a couple of decent photos of it.

A little further east, near the Batavia Wastewater Treatment Plant, a young, curious Red-tailed Hawk peeked in over my sunroof on my car as I was looking over a farm field. That was a real surprise! He even let me grab a few awkward photos of him.

After the treatment plant, I drove around the Geneseo area looking for migrants. I did find a few shorebirds, but the only interesting ones were a couple of Solitary Sandpipers mixed in with some Killdeer and yellowlegs.

A trip out to Montezuma brought a year bird - two Hudsonian Godwits way out in the Knox Marcellus marsh. A poor digiscoped photo is included.

Around the yard, after the Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, I found our first migrating warbler, a beautiful male Magnolia. We are still seeing Ruby-throated Hummingbirds - but only the females and the young ones now. The males have all left to return to their wintering places in the tropics. I haven't seen a Baltimore Oriole at our feeders for a couple of weeks now and I just brought in the grape jelly feeder for cleaning.